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Cardiovascular magnetic resonance of the charcoal heart

Vikas K Rathi email, Ronald B Williams email, June Yamrozik email, Howard Grill email and Robert WW Biederman email

Division of Cardiology, Allegheny General Hospital, Drexel University College of Medicine, 320 E North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA-15212, USA

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Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2008, 10:37doi:10.1186/1532-429X-10-37

Published: 9 July 2008

Abstract

We report a case of malignant melanoma metastasis to the heart presenting as complete heart block. The highlight of the case is to demonstrate that silent cardiac metastasis is not uncommon and CMR has the potential to characterize these cardiac metastases and should be used routinely as a screening tool for those cancers with a high chance of cardiac involvement.


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